Overflow-alarm.



A. G. WEIER.

OVERFLOW ALARM.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 5, 1911.

Patented Aug. 6, 1912.

1 Suva/Mow (Z 74 6/2573.

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W lite Stains, residing at Chi- C ""0. in. the county ot' (look and State 12f i haw invnied certain new and tlS ll thium, a

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npi-m'cinenin in Overflow-AlaPins, (if whu'h the tintlnwing IS a specification.

TlHF; lln'tfliloil relates ta improvements in alai'nia ii)? tanlw, and has pai'tmilai' inter- 10 enccto a tiQ KfP of H135 character for HJilflttto an engineer that he has pumped h w in ihe tank.

i inuiipal nhjet-t is to provide a. simi'illS (diameter which may he .p ml to an ordina y tank. and POSlilJtlY ring" an alarm when rcanhvs a certain height.

.iii and advantag-Qs will he 11]) n ihe 'ii'nllnwing tlesciiipiiinn and v accmmgany Wings: l. is a vertical ctinn of a pnjrtinn of tank I nvicn applied. i ig. 2 is a top of the same. 53 in a side eta 7 i c on top .i n which munied on this I mi the perforated ii- 'Z.-.ia hair 15,- one end 16 k t (HWY-(i 5nnwardly and inwardly e1 thehlock 11, while the a side (if? JXtiOI'idS downwardly into "anl: it) on his lower end a hall-floalftt}. th nini'en'ient 01'? the hall will commui wane'nt to the cuiived portion 16 to ie same in nm in toward and an ay iron) Block 111., atmnlrding as the water is high on in the tank. One end of the shaftv i3 is Ind as indicated ai'; 19, and ha ihei'eh a snrew 20 for attachnmnt'of the ndncting ire 21. Secured on. the face (it a block ii in the path (lit? point of the curve I361 16 is a p 22 which 6}? tends or ardiy of one of the block" I j t t t nnninn.

tanned Aug. 6,1912.

at the pumps that tilt tank full. The en gainer (hon stops his pumps, and as the alarm would mmtinun t'OJflHQ hvvause the water wnuld hold thi hall at that lewl, the switvh is thvn thrown open to break the (in nailv and stop the hall from ringing. After a vertain period 0i time the switch am he ("toned again in see it the hell will. ring, and t the hell does not ring the switch may he left (lOSQtl and the pumps again Fitttl'iOCl if desired.

From the foregoing it will readily be seen that the device is simple and n'tlivient in 0pm-ation. and may he readily applied to an ordinary tank.

ll hat i; clainwd in 'ihe nninhination with a tank of a block of insulating niatvzial ennui-0d tn the upper portion of illt, tank, a shaft n'muntod on the upper 0nd of the block. a [loaf rodlonsel pivoted on the shaft, the outer end of the rod being dmvnwai'dly and inwardly curved tmiai'd the opposite side of the block, an electric t'ii'cuit, an alarm in the (circuit, a plate on the face of the block adjacent the said curved pni'tinn (it the rod, nne 0nd of the plate extending heynnd one Iidn 0f the hlnclg a binding screw on "the extended end, one end of the shaft hcing ilattene ing screw nmunfed on the flattened end, one side of the oloctritcircuit hein connected to said binding st'inw. and the other side of the 'ii't-nit lining ((mIlL'CtQd t0 the binding screw (it the plate.

in testimony whereof I atlix mysignatul'm in the :OFPSOIKO of two witnvsses.

lVitnesses:

l li'nnnnn, was. Nil-man.

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